Replacement Training Centers were an integral part of World War II.  Soldier's entering the Army and ultimately the War spent 13 weeks learning the fundmentals of soldiering in one of twenty one Centers that were to be be constructed during the during the Winter and Spring of 1940-1941.    

This document describes how to set up an OCR engine, prepare the images for recognition, and convert from pdf files to text.  Here at the Military Yearbook Project we often have the need to convert old military yearbooks in.pdf format to text, then ultimately to html.  Most of the old MOS codes used as references on this website were converted using this method.  We use a combination of software to output the text.